Individual research publications

Alfonso Pitarque; Juan C. Meléndez; Encarna Satorres; Joaquín Escudero & José Manuel García-Justicia (2024) Effect of emotional valence on true and false recognition controlling arousal. Cognition and Emotion , 38(6), pp. 928 - 937 . ISSN: 1464-0600

Satorres, E.; Escudero Torrella, J.; Real, E.; Pitarque, A.; Delhom, I.; Meléndez, J.C. (2023) Home-based transcranial direct current stimulation in mild neurocognitive disorder due to possible Alzheimer's disease. A randomized, single-blind, controlled-placebo study. Frontiers In Psychology , 13, p. 1071737 . ISSN: 1664-1078

Meléndez, J. C.; Satorres, E.; Pitarque, A.; Escudero, J.; Delhom, I.; Navarro-Prado, A. B. (2023) Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation Intervention in Alzheimer's Disease and Its Follow-Up. Journal Of Alzheimers Disease , 96(4), pp. 1685 - 1693 . ISSN: 1387-2877

Satorres, E.; Meléndez, J.C.; Pitarque, A.; Real, E.; Abella, M.; Escudero, J. (2022) Enhancing Immediate Memory, Potential Learning, and Working Memory with Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Healthy Older Adults. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health , 19, p. 12716 . ISSN: 1661-7827

Meléndez, J.C.; Pitarque, A.; Delhom, I.; Real, E.; Abella, M.; Satorres, E. (2021) A Longitudinal Study of Episodic and Semantic Autobiographical Memory in aMCI and Alzheimer's Disease Patients. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health , 18., p. 6849 . ISSN: 1661-7827

Meléndez, J. C.; Satorres, E.; Pitarque, A.; Delhom, I.; Real, E.; Escudero, J (2021) Effectiveness of tDCS at Improving Recognition and Reducing False Memories in Older Adults. International Journal Of Environmental Research And Public Health , 13(3), p. 1317 . ISSN: 1661-7827

Pitarque, A.; Satorres, E.; Escudero, J.; Algarabel, s.; Meléndez, J.C. (2020) Phonological false recognition, recollection, and familiarity in healthy aging and Alzheimer's diseas. Psicothema , 32(3), pp. 307 - 313 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Pitarque, A.; Satorres, E.; Escudero, J.; Algarabel, S.; Meléndez, J.C. (2019) Phonological false recognition produced by bottom-up automatic activation in young and older people. Memory , 27(4), pp. 528 - 535 . ISSN: 0965-8211

Meléndez, J. C.; Escudero, J.; Satorres, E.; Pitarque, A. (2019) Type of memory and emotional valence in healthy aging, mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease. Psicothema , 31(1), pp. 60 - 65 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Meléndez, J. C.; Redondo, R.; Escudero, J.; Satorres, E.; Pitarque, A. (2019) Executive Functions, Episodic Autobiographical Memory, Problem-Solving Capacity, and Depression Proposal for a Structural Equations Model. Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry and Neurology , 32(2), pp. 81 - 89 . ISSN: 0891-9887

Agusti, A. I.; Satorres, E.; Pitarque, A.; Meléndez, J. C. (2019) Effects of SOA and Age on the Inhibition of Return in a Localization Task. Current Psychology , 38(5), pp. 1304 - 1309 . ISSN: 1046-1310

Meléndez, J. C.; Satorres, E.; Redondo, R.; Escudero, J.; Pitarque, A. (2018) Wellbeing, resilience, and coping: Are there differences between healthy older adults, adults with mild cognitive impairment, and adults with Alzheimer-type dementia?. Archives of Gerontology and Geriatrics , 77, pp. 38 - 43 . ISSN: 0167-4943

Pitarque, A.; Satorres, E.; Escudero, J.; Algarabel, S.; Bekkers, O.; Meléndez, J.C. (2018) Motivated forgetting reduces veridical memories but slightly increases false memories in both young and healthy older people. Consciousness and Cognition , 59, pp. 26 - 31 . ISSN: 1053-8100

Pitarque, A.; Satorres, E.; Sales, A.; Escudero, J.; Meléndez, J. C. (2018) Effects of Stimuli Repetition and Age in False Recognition. Psychological Reports , 121(6), pp. 1106 - 1119 . ISSN: 0033-2941

Meléndez, J. C.; Agusti, A.I.; Satorres, E.; Pitarque, A. (2018) Are semantic and episodic autobiographical memories influenced by the life period remembered? Comparison of young and older adults. European Journal Of Ageing , 15, pp. 417 - 424 . ISSN: 1613-9372

Pitarque, A.; Sales, A.; Satorres, E.; Redondo, R.; Meléndez, J.C.; (2017) The role of self-referencing in true and false recognition in young people and healthy older people. Psicothema , 29, pp. 341 - 345 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Agusti, A.; Satorres, E.; Pitarque, A.; Meléndez, J.C.; (2017) An emotional Stroop task with faces and words. A comparison of young and older adults. Consciousness and Cognition , 53, pp. 99 - 104 . ISSN: 1053-8100

Pitarque, A.; Meléndez, J.C.; Sales, A.; Satorres, E.; Escudero, J.; Algarabel, S. (2017) The Role of Recollection and Familiarity in Nondemented Parkinson's Patients. The Journal of General Psychology: experimental, physiological, and comparative psychology , 144(3), pp. 230 - 243 . ISSN: 0022-1309

Sales, A.; Pitarque, A.; Escudero, J.; Satorres, E.; Meléndez, J.C.; (2017) Can there be learning potential in Parkinson's disease? A comparison with healthy older adults. Developmental Neuropsychology , 42(7-8), pp. 460 - 469 . ISSN: 8756-5641

Pitarque, A.; Meléndez, J.; Sales, A.; Mayordomo, T.; Escudero, J.; Algarabel, S. (2016) Differences in false recollection according to the cognitive reserve of healthy older people. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition , 23(5), pp. 625 - 637 . ISSN: 1382-5585

Algarabel, S.; Sales, A.; Pitarque, A.; Meléndez, J.C.; Escudero, J.; Mayordomo, T. (2016) Associative and implicit memory performance as a function of cognitive reserve in elderly adults with and without mild cognitive impairment. Spanish Journal Of Psychology , 14(e4), pp. 1 - 7 . ISSN: 1138-7416

Pitarque, A.; Meléndez, J.; Sales, A.; Mayordomo, T.; Satorres, E; Escudero, J.; Algarabel, S. (2016) The effects of healthy aging, amnestic mild cognitive impairment, and Alzheimer's disease on recollection, familiarity and false recognition, estimated by an associative process-dissociation recognition procedure. Neuropsychologia , 91, pp. 29 - 35 . ISSN: 0028-3932

Pitarque, A.; Sales, A.; Meléndez, J.C.; Alagarabel, S. (2015) Repetition increases false recollection in older people. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology , 56(1), pp. 38 - 44 . ISSN: 0036-5564

Pitarque, A.; Sales, A.; Meléndez, J.C.; Mayordomo, T.; & Satorres, E. (2015) An overall decline both in recollection and familiarity in healthy aging. Psicothema , 27(4), pp. 362 - 367 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Algarabel, S.; Pitarque, A.; Sales, A.; Meléndez, J.C.; Escudero, J. (2015) False memories in Lewy-body disease. Scandinavian Journal of Psychology , 56(6), pp. 599 - 606 . ISSN: 0036-5564

Sales, A.; Meléndez, J.C.; Algarabel, S.; Pitarque A. (2014) Differences in familiarity according to the cognitive reserve of healthy elderly people. Estudios de Psicologia , 35(2), pp. 341 - 358 . ISSN: 0210-9395

Algarabel, S., Pitarque, A., Cómbita, L.M, & Rodríguez, L.A. (2013) Implicit relational effects in associative recognition. Psicologica , 34(2), pp. 163 - 177 . ISSN: 0211-2159

Pitarque, A.; Sáez, B. (2012) The role of perceptual information in familiarity-based scene recognition. Spanish Journal Of Psychology , 15(3), pp. 901 - 909 . ISSN: 1138-7416

Algarabel, S., Fuentes, M., Escudero, J., Pitarque, A., Peset, V., Mazón, J.F. y Melendez, J. C. (2012) Recognition memory deficits in mild cognitive impairment. Aging Neuropsychology and Cognition , 19(5), pp. 608 - 619 . ISSN: 1382-5585

Algarabel, S.and Pitarque, A. (2010) Familiarity changes as a function of perceptual shifts. Spanish Journal Of Psychology , 13(2), pp. 518 - 524 . ISSN: 1138-7416

Algarabel , Salvador,Rodriguez, L.A., Escudero, J., Fuentes, M., Peset ,V., Pitarque, A., Cómbita, L-M., Mazón, J. F. (2010) Recognition by familiarity is preserved in Parkinson's without dementia and Lewy-Body disease. Neuropsychology , 24(5), pp. 599 - 607 . ISSN: 0894-4105

Algarabel, S., Pitarque, A., Tomás, J.M. and Mazón, J.F. (2010) Explorations on familiarity produced by words with specific combinations of letters. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology , 22(2), pp. 265 - 285 . ISSN: 0954-1446

Algarabel, S., Escudero, J.,., Mazón, F., Pitarque, A, Fuentes, M., Peset, V., & Lacruz, L. (2009) Familiarity-based recognition in the young, healthy elderly, mild cognitive impaired and Alzheimer¿s patients. Neuropsychologia , 47, pp. 2056 - 2064 . ISSN: 0028-3932

Pitarque, A., Algarabel, S., Aznar-Casanova, J. A. (2007) Familiaridad y recuerdo en el reconocimiento de rostros ficticios: Implicaciones para los modelos de reconocimiento. Psicothema , 19(4), pp. 565 - 571 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Algarabel, S. & Pitarque, A. (2007) Context, Remember-Know recognition judgments and ROC parameters. Memory , 15(5), pp. 477 - 494 . ISSN: 0965-8211

Algarabel, S., Pitarque, A. (2007) ROC parameters in item and context recognition. Psicothema , 19(1), pp. 163 - 170 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Algarabel, S. & Pitarque, A., & Gotor, A. (2006) Effect of retention interval on the simultaneous cognate-noncognate and remember-know mirror effects. Memory , 14(1), pp. 79 - 86 . ISSN: 0965-8211

Algarabel, S., Gotor, A., & Pitarque, A. (2003) Remember, know, confidence and the mirror effect: Changes as a function of discriminability conditions. European Journal of Cognitive Psychology , 15, pp. 589 - 605 . ISSN: 0954-1446

Pitarque, A., Algarabel, S., Dasí, C. y Ruiz, J.C. (2003) Olvido dirigido de falsas memorias: ¿Podemos olvidar intencionalmente una falsa memoria?. Psicothema , 15, pp. 6 - 11 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Algarabel, S., Pitarque, A., and Dasi, C. (2002) Efecto del tipo de información sobre el esfuerzo cognitivo y el estado de consciencia asociado al recuerdo. Psicothema , 14, pp. 393 - 398 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Algarabel, S., Rosa, E., Ruiz, J. C., Dasí, C., Pitarque, A (2000) Perspectivas cognitivas y modelos TRI en el desarrollo de tests de rendimiento: una exploración preliminar de funciones de información. Psicothema , 12, pp. 25 - 29 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Ruiz, J. C., S. Algarabel, C. Dasí y A. Pitarque (2000) Papel de los diagramas en la organización del conocimiento: Evidencia a partir del pathfinder y del escalamiento multidimensional. Psicologica , 19, pp. 367 - 386 . ISSN: 0211-2159

Soler, M.J.; Ignacio, J.; Algarabel, S. ; Dasí, C. y Pitarque, A. (1996) Elaboration and images: Mnemonic aids in the learning of texts. International Journal of Psychology , 31, pp. 28449 - 28449 . ISSN: 0020-7594

Alfonso Pitarque, Juan Carlos Ruiz, Salvador Algarabel (1995) Simulation of dissociative effects on explicit/implicit memory tasks from a connectionist model. Psicothema , 7, pp. 339 - 350 . ISSN: 0214-9915

Juan Carlos Ruiz, Alfonso Pitarque, Carmen Dasí, Salvador Algarabel (1994) Simulaciones en una red conexionista de propagación hacia atrás. Psicologica , 15, pp. 121 - 140 . ISSN: 0211-2159

Alfonso Pitarque, Juan Carlos Ruiz, Salvador Algarabel (1994) Una introducción a las principales arquitecturas conexionistas. Psicologica , 15, pp. 101 - 119 . ISSN: 0211-2159

Juan Carlos Ruiz, Maria José Soler, Carmen Dasí, Salvador Algarabel, Alfonso Pitarque (1993) Estudio histórico de la influencia del conexionismo en la ciencia cognitiva actual. Revista de Historia de la Psicología , 14, pp. 43 - 57 . ISSN: 0211-0040

Alfonso Pitarque, Salvador Algarabel, Maria José Soler (1992) Influencia de la repetición estimular sobre la acción facilitadora semántica. Revista de Psicología , 14, pp. 135 - 152 . ISSN: 0716-8039

Alfonso Pitarque, Salvador Algarabel, Enrique Meseguer (1992) Degree of elaborative processing in two implicit and two explicit memory tasks. Psychonomic Bulletin & Review , 30, pp. 217 - 220 . ISSN: 1069-9384

Alfonso Pitarque, Salvador Algarabel, Maria José Soler (1992) Effect of prime and target repetition on lexical decisión time. Perceptual and Motor Skills , 74, pp. 403 - 411 . ISSN: 0031-5125

Algarabel, S.; Dasí, C. y Pitarque, A. (1992) Additivity of activation: Empirical evidence in an episodic task. International Journal of Psychology , 27, pp. 131 - 132 . ISSN: 0020-7594

Alfonso Pitarque,Salvador Algarabel (1991) El conexionismo como marco de simulación: Aplicación a una tarea de facilitación semántica. Cognitiva , 2, pp. 165 - 186 . ISSN: 0214-3550

Alfonso Pitarque,Salvador Algarabel, Maria José Soler (1991) Facilitación semántica y facilitación por repetición: Efectos aditivos o interactivos en función del tipo de tarea. Psicologica , 12, pp. 279 - 292 . ISSN: 0211-2159

Salvador Algarabel, Alfonso Pitarque, y María José Soler (1988) ADDITIVITY FROM MULTIPLE PRIMES IN IDENTIFYING BACKWARD WRITTEN WORDS1. Perceptual and Motor Skills , 66, pp. 715 - 721 . ISSN: 0031-5125

Algarabel, S. , Pitarque, A. , Soler, M. J., Ruiz, J. C., Baixauli, J. M., y Dasí, C (1987) Effect of prime type on lexical decision time. Perceptual and Motor Skills , 64, pp. 119 - 125 . ISSN: 0031-5125

Alfonso Pitarque, María José Soler, y Salvador Algarabel (1987) Facilitación episódica desde el aprendizaje de listas seriales de conceptos no relacionados. Psicologica , 8, pp. 173 - 185 . ISSN: 0211-2159

Salvador Algarabel, Maria José Soler, y Alfonso Pitarque (1987) Effect of practice, mapping, stimulus and size on string matching. Perceptual and Motor Skills , 65, pp. 991 - 994 . ISSN: 0031-5125

Salvador Algarabel y Alfonso Pitarque (1984) Efecto del nivel de abstracción de la señal sobre el tiempo de decisión léxica al test, en función de la asincronía señal-test. Psicologica , 5, pp. 337 - 349 . ISSN: 0211-2159

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